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Overview

In Westervelt’s Lahaina-area account, Walia is the chief whom Ka-ilio-hae visits while his living body lies unconscious. Three watchmen guard the approach and a pair of heads obstructs the entrance. The visitor’s dead sister teaches him how to pass them. Inside, servants quietly move feather standards above the sleeping chief and his queen.

Walia asks about the visitor’s earthly ruler and hears the chiefly genealogy. He orders Ka-ilio-hae to return to his body and warn his people of approaching troubles. Repeated public calls end the ghostly sports; after the third, the enclosing walls will prevent escape. The sister brings her reluctant brother home before this closure. Although this chapter calls him king of ghosts, it does not expressly identify Walia as the Milu of the preceding origin story.

Ghostly chiefPlace-linked narrative
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Origins & earliest records

William Drake Westervelt, Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis; London: Constable, 1915), XIII. Unnamed local narrator; older authorities only directly read through this publication.

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Records & interpretation

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    Legends of Gods and Ghosts, XIII, pp. 100–107

    William Drake Westervelt, collector and translator · 1915

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  1. Primary collected narrativeLegends of Gods and Ghosts, XIII, pp. 100–107Research access: 2026-10-05

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